January 10, 2011 - Electronic Arts will unveil Battlefield 3 this March. The publisher confirmed to the media it will host an event on Mar. 1, 2011, taking place during the week of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

July 1, 2010 - If there's one thing that we took away from E3 2010 this year, it's that people like shooters and publishers have no problems throwing giant sums of money around to get more on the market. From first-person shooters like Crysis 2 and RAGE to third-person titles like Dead Space 2 and Red Faction: Armageddon, you should have no trouble finding a game where the focus is blasting things to pieces. In case the modern battlefields and fantastical futuristic weaponry have blurred together to the point where you're 95 percent certain a game called Medal of Dutyzone Ops: Bad Gears 3 – Reachstorm The Line Vietnam actually exists, here's a list of some of the bigger titles coming out in 2010 and 2011 to help sort it all out.

June 25, 2010 - In the realm of first-person shooters, it's pretty clear at this point that present day is the new World War II. Between Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the latest games in two of the biggest genre franchises around , current-day settings for online shooting contests are dominating in terms of sales and player numbers. This trend continues with Electronic Arts' Medal of Honor, a reboot of the long-running franchise set in Afghanistan where American soldiers tangle with insurgent forces. The single-player portion of the game is being built at EA Los Angeles, but the multiplayer is being constructed by DICE, the same studio that created the Battlefield series and delivered Bad Company 2 earlier this year.

June 25, 2010 - At E3 last week, EA announced two special editions of Dead Space 2 and Medal of Honor exclusively for the PS3. The publisher also demoed a majority of its titles on stage using PS3s. What gives?

June 21, 2010 - While many videogame developers tend to be brazen when it comes to violence and emotional exploitation, they become awfully gunshy when it comes to taking on real world subjects. EA LA is defying this convention by recreating the on-going and deeply controversial war in Afghanistan in videogame form. Last year, Atomic Games foundered on public backlash after announcing their own shooter set during a real world conflict with Six Days in Fallujah. Medal of Honor is not tied to any one specific battle in Afghanistan, but its environments, enemy details, and setpieces are taken directly from Army Rangers, Tier-1 Operators who've fought in Afghanistan. Where Fallujah was pilloried, Medal of Honor has so far had a favorable reception in the press. I spoke with Greg Goodrich, Executive Producer, and Rich Farrelly, Creative Director, about making a game set in Afgahanistan while, thus far, avoiding protest and public ire.

June 14, 2010 - Though EALA is doing the single-player for Medal of Honor, it's DICE (makers of Battlefield: Bad Company 2) handling the multiplayer component. While the expectation may be for DICE to offer up Battlefield's multiplayer with a different coat of paint, that's not the case at all. Medal of Honor's multiplayer certainly has elements of DICE's design heritage, but it's more about ground infantry combat. The battles, 12-on-12 online matches featuring Special Forces versus insurgents, are intense and brutal. You die quickly thanks to "faster bullets" as DICE describes it, and a lack of health packs. This is war. Good luck surviving.

June 14, 2010 - During Electronic Arts' press conference, the company revealed Gun Club, a new online portal where users can unlock and receive special access to new features for many of the company's games.

June 14, 2010 - EA unveiled a new online service for shooter fans at its E3 media briefing this afternoon. EA says the service will deliver "early access to news, events, and more of what [gamers] really love."

June 14, 2010 - At today's EA Press Conference a live demonstration was given for Medal of Honor's multiplayer. While this demo was too short to really form any sort of opinions on, the important news to come out of it was that a Multiplayer Beta test goes live on June 21 for PS3, 360 and PC.

June 10, 2010 - This year's media briefing will feature news and demonstrations from big EA titles such as Medal of Honor, Need for Speed, Dead Space 2, EA SPORTS Active 2 and The Sims 3 for console; all new properties EA SPORTS MMA and titles from EA Partners, Crytek and Epic. The briefing can be viewed live at www.ea.com/e3 at 2 PM PDT on Monday, June 14.

May 14, 2010 - Welcome back to Game Scoop!, your weekly dose of gaming news and massive LOLZ. Your shepherds this week will be Daemon Hatfield, Greg Miller, Hilary Goldstein, and Charles Onyett. We've managed to stop watching Brudvig play Red Dead Redemption for a bit (that game is awesome).

May 13, 2010 - Setting a game in the theatre of modern war may not be particularly novel anymore, but for EA's long-running Medal of Honor franchise it's a first. Since the glory days of the original and Allied Assault the franchise has branched out from consoles to PCs to handheld systems. As with any brand, excessive iteration leads to exhaustion . Eventually the quality suffers, consumers lose interest, and the name is quietly packed up and sealed away in the vast halls of retired intellectual properties. So will EA Los Angeles and DICE's new game, the subtitle-less Medal of Honor, deliver an appropriately swift jolt of rejuvenation to the franchise? I certainly hope so., or cement its status amongst the Crash Bandicoots and Spyro the Dragons of this world?